| ID | 097135 |
| Title Proper | At home in the city, at home in the world |
| Other Title Information | cosmopolitanism and urban belonging in Kolkata |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Lahiri, Shompa |
| Publication | 2010. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article considers the politics of urban belonging for a religious minority, Brahmos, in Kolkata, India, through the contradictory notions of cultural particularism and cosmopolitanism. In his concept of 'Cosmopolitan Patriotism', Kwame Appiah argues attachment to a home, 'with its own cultural particularities', can co-exist with 'taking pleasure from the presence of other different places that are home to other different people'. By building on Appiah's situated cosmopolitanism I analyse Brahmo attachments to the city of Kolkata, through the particularism of the middle-class Bengali city and its conceptual other, the cosmopolitan, classless, fraternal city. But rather than representing these local and global affiliations as disjunctive, I explore how such belongings can co-exist and destabilise. |
| `In' analytical Note | Contemporary South Asia Vol. 18, No. 2; Jun 2010: p.191 - 204 |
| Journal Source | Contemporary South Asia Vol. 18, No. 2; Jun 2010: p.191 - 204 |
| Key Words | Brahmo Samaj ; Kolkata ; Cosmopolitanism ; Urban Belonging |